In 1995 and 1996 six movie or tv variations of Jane Austen's novels have been produced -- an unparalleled quantity. extra extraordinary, all have been serious and/or field place of work successes. What money owed for this explosion of curiosity? a lot of the allure of those movies lies in our nostalgic hope on the finish of the millennium for an age of better politeness and sexual reticence. Austen's ridicule of deceit and pretentiousness additionally appeals to our fin de si??cle sensibilities. The novels have been replaced, despite the fact that, to reinforce their attract a large well known viewers, and the revisions show a lot approximately our personal tradition and its values. those contemporary productions espouse explicitly twentieth-century feminist notions and reshape the Austenian hero to make him agree to sleek expectancies. Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield current fourteen essays interpreting the phenomenon of Jane Austen as cultural icon, delivering considerate and sympathetic insights at the movies via numerous serious techniques. The participants debate even if those productions improve or undercut the delicate feminism that Austen promoted in her novels. From Persuasion to satisfaction and Prejudice, from the 3 Emmas (including Clueless ) to feel and Sensibility, those movies be triumphant simply because they flatter our intelligence and schooling. and so they have as a lot to inform us approximately ourselves as they do concerning the global of Jane Austen. This moment variation encompasses a new bankruptcy at the fresh movie model of Mansfield Park.

Readers and scholars of Ayn Rand will worth seeing during this selection of interviews how Ayn Rand utilized her philosophy and ethical rules to the problems of the day. Objectively Speaking contains part a century of print and broadcast interviews drawn from the Ayn Rand data. The thirty-two interviews during this assortment, edited by way of Marlene Podritske and Peter Schwartz, comprise print interviews from the Thirties and edited transcripts of radio and tv interviews from the Nineteen Forties via 1981. choices are incorporated from a outstanding sequence of radio publicizes over a four-year interval (1962-1966) on Columbia University's station WKCR in long island urban and syndicated through the usa and Canada.

Ayn Rand's strange and strikingly unique insights on an enormous variety of themes are captured through well-known interviewers within the background of yankee tv broadcasting, reminiscent of Johnny Carson, Edwin Newman, Mike Wallace, and Louis Rukeyser. the gathering concludes with an interview of Dr. Leonard Peikoff on his radio software in 1999, recalling his 30-year own organization with Ayn Rand and discussing her specified highbrow and literary achievements.

Ayn Rand is the best-selling writer of Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem, and We the Living. Fifty years or extra after e-book, revenues of those novels proceed to extend.

Based at the author's discovery of a brand new folktale kind, the feminine trickster, Jurich's publication identifies and celebrates these lady protagonists in folktales who use trickery to save lots of themselves and others, to discover new instructions for his or her lives, and to claim their person autonomies, in particular in societies that scale down and oppress girls. via artistic thoughts reckoning on verbal facility, mental acuity, and diplomatic information, those girls tricksters―better named trickstars―uncover the absurdity, hypocrisy, and corruption within the higher patriarchal society. in the course of the trickstar's efforts, the procedure is circumvented or foiled, usually enlightened, and typically greater. This multicultural, comparative research unearths common human features in addition to gender ameliorations among male and female tricksters and realizes the values and attitudes which form the trickstar's personality and behaviour. Trickstars additionally seem open air of the oral folktale culture; the writer discusses their roles in modern feminist revisionist stories, in addition to in mythology, biblical narratives, Shakespearean comedy, novels, performs, and opera.

How the feminine trickster differs from her male counterpart is, for the 1st time in folklore experiences, illustrated via a comparability in their capabilities within the narrative scheme of the story. those services comprise the diverting or fun function, the morally ambiguous or reprehensible position, the position of the manipulator or strategist, and the function of the transformer or tradition bringer who reforms and improves the character of her society. Jurich delineates the categorical different types of tricksters who practice those services, indicates how trickstar stories variously impact listeners and readers, and exhibits how specific sorts of trickstar characters give a contribution to the reason of the story. Feminist perspectives of the protagonists are analyzed in addition to modern revisionist stories which search to opposite detrimental girl photos and to provide self reliant girls characters who can and do make confident contributions to society. For the 1st time in folklore reports, either male and female tricksters are outlined and differentiated, their services are illustrated via studying narrative schemes, and the time period trickstar, invented by means of the writer, is used to outline and describe a feminine trickster.